At the same time, maybe not. The story of Fanny, the first all-female rock band to release an album on a major label (Warner Bros.), is told with a good deal of affection and no small amount of spin ...

We were being thrown to the dogs. It felt like our hard work was being chucked away for this crap idea that girls couldn’t ...

There was a time when a woman stepped on stage in front of a rock audience at her own peril. “When you’re a woman in rock, you’re regarded as a freak — it’s hard on the ego,” Jean Millington of Fanny, ...

Long before the Runaways, the Go-Go's, L7, Sleater-Kinney and Bikini Kill, the Los Angeles-based Fanny distinguished themselves as one of the first all-female rock bands in the early 1970s whose ...

From the moment their first shows were advertised, Fanny was promoted as an all-girl band, but the label wears thin in director Bobbie Jo Hart’s Fanny: The Right to Rock. Each member says it ...

It is fitting to find Fanny: The Right to Rock broadcast on PBS. The channel thrives on educational material, and director Bobbi Jo Hart’s documentary teaches many lessons. The film chronicles the ...

Alice de Buhr likes to say that her all-female band Fanny didn’t quite break the glass ceiling for women in rock ‘n’ roll. But they sure put some mighty big cracks in it. They also paved the way for ...

Fanny are almost forgotten today, which is a shame, because they were a damn fine rock band. An all-girl band (in the parlance of the times). They wrote, played and attracted top producers as well as ...

In the last issue of Rolling Stone produced in the 20th century, a bevy of musicians were asked what musical issues they’d like to see remedied or addressed in the 21st. In a quote that was pulled out ...